Dagmar C. G. Lorenz is Professor of Germanic Studies at the
University of Illinois at Chicago. In her research she focuses on
nineteenth and twentieth-century German and Austrian literature and
culture, German-Jewish writing, and Holocaust literature and film.
She was the editor of The German Quarterly from 1997 to 2003 and
served as Vice President and President of MALCA (Modern Austrian
Literature and Culture Association) from 2001-2007. Her book
publications include Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by
Jewish Women Writers (1997), and Verfolgung bis zum Massenmord.
Diskurse zum Holocaust in deutscher Sprache (1992) as well as
edited volumes: From Fin-de-Siecle to Theresienstadt: The Works and
Life of the Writer Elsa Porges-Bernstein (2007), ed. Dagmar C. G.
Lorenz and Helga W. Kraft (2007); A Companion to the Works of Elias
Canetti (2004), A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler
(2003), Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria (1999). Transforming
the Center, Eroding the Margins: Essays on Ethnic and Cultural
Boundaries in German Speaking Countries, co-editor: Renate S.
Posthofen (1998), Insiders and Outsiders. Jewish and Gentile
Culture in Germany and Austria (1994).